The lineup for Melodifestivalen 2018 is complete, including Kikki Danielsson, Jessica Andersson and Samir & Viktor. See all the 28 artists and songs here

A total of 2,771 songs have been submitted for the next Melodifestivalen in Sweden. 28 acts have been selected by the Swedish national broadcaster SVT, to compete in Melodifestivalen 2018, and one of these will represent Sweden in Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon. The artists of next year's Melodifestivalen were presented at a live press conference on Tuesday.

Among the known faces are Kikki Danielsson. She will compete for the 10th time in Melodifestivalen, and has won the contest two times earlier: In 1982 with "Dag efter dag" and again in 1985 with "Bra vibrationer".

SVT's super miss

Melodyfestivalen? Viktor & Samir at the presentation

At the live press conference on Tuesday, SVT had made a big failure: On the blueprint behind the artists, SVT has renamed the competition - to "Melodyfestivalen".– The human factor. A little sad, but it became a miss simply. That was not meant like this, says Jan-Erik Westman, Press Spokesman at SVT.

The format for Melodifestivalen 2018 is the same as last year: Each of the 4 heats qualifies 2 songs directly to the final Each of the 4 heats qualifies 2 songs to the "second chance"-show. In the "second chance" 4 songs will be selected for the final.

They came last two times (1963 and 1977), and since the introduction of the Semi-finals in 2004 Sweden managed to qualify for the Grand Final 13 out of 14 times! (only skipped the qualification in 2010).